Year: 2014
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Reparations Campaign Distracts From Challenges Facing the Caribbean
On July 16th Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Principal of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill campus in Barbados, spoke to the House Continue reading
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Tony and the Rooster Booster
There are twelve signs in the Shēngxiào or Chinese zodiac, each linked to an animal. The Rat is the first animal in the cycle and Continue reading
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Pilot Errors
If I had a nickname for any of the pilots of Caribbean Airlines (CAL) who “sicked out” a few days (Tuesday July 1) ago and left passengers stranded in many different airports throughout the region and wherever else the airline flies, it will be “Wrong Way”
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IMF, Simpson-Miller – Fixing an Economy of Exclusion, and a Wasteland of Discarded Potential
The visit of Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund to Jamaica June 25 – 27, represents a game changer from the almost Continue reading
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IMF’s Lagarde Calls for Caribbean Partnership for Building the Future
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine, Lagarde has identified partnership among Caribbean Countries and with the IMF as the way to tackle Continue reading
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The King and I
There are many faces to Sparrow- his humour, his women, his travels, his concern for social justice, his politics and his raw sexuality. But they are our faces, our concerns and our interests. He is us.
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The Female of the Species
An assessment of the impact of Hurricane Ivan on Jamaica by the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) in 2004 stated, “The event’s direct damage Continue reading
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Big Brother Software Giants and the Dumbing Down of Society
Bill Gates is busy saving people in Africa with vaccines but the company he founded is creating a new technological poor over here in the Continue reading
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Chili to the Burn
There was a time when I occasionally indulged in beverages brimful of beaded bubbles instead of liquids intended merely to prevent dehydration and desiccation. It Continue reading
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When the Storm Comes, Be Ready
Whether you believe in climate change and its possible effects on the weather, you need to be prepared for the Atlantic Caribbean Hurricane Season that Continue reading